Dmitry Matvienko

Dmitry Matvienko won the 2021 edition of the prestigious «Malko Competition for Young Conductors» where he received both First and Audience prizes. Prior to this achievement, he was awarded with the Critics and the «Made in Italy» prizes at the International Conducting Competition «Guido Cantelli».

The 24/25 season marks the beginning of his tenure as  Chief Conductor of the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.

He received his first music lessons at the age of six, followed by formal training as a chorister and chorus master. He studied choral conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and he was a member of the MusicAeterna Choir at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis from 2012 to 2013. He furthered his conducting studies at the Moscow Conservatory and participated in master classes with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Jurowski, Teodor Currentzis, and Vasily Petrenko.

In 2017, he joined the conductor internship program of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, led by chief conductor Vladimir Spivakov. Dmitry assisted and prepared various programs for conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Vasily Petrenko, and Michail Jurowski with Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra.

While conducting for the Svetlanov Symphony, the National Philharmonic of Russia, the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra (chief conductor Yuri Bashmet), and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra “Musica Viva”, Dmitry led revivals of operas including Prince Igor, Faust, Iolanta, La Traviata, The Tsar's Bride, The Firebird, and Verdi's Requiem at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus.

He also served as musical assistant to Vladimir Jurowski in new productions of The Nose (directed by Kirill Serebrennikov) and War and Peace (directed by Dimitri Tcherniakov) at the Bayerische Staatsoper.

In recent seasons, Dmitry has conducted prestigious orchestras, including the Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Orchestre Philarmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestra Teatro Comunale Bologna, Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, National Orchestra of Russia, Bergen Philharmonic, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice of Venice, Aarhus Symfoniorkester, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Orchestre national de Lille, Arktisk Filharmoni, Dallas Symphony, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI Torino, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Tonkünstler Wien, Atlanta Symphony, Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and Tokyo Symphony.

In the 24/25 season he returns on the podium of Adelaide Symphony, Arctic Philharmonic, Aarhus Symfoniorkester, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester,  while also making his debut with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Göteborgs Symfoniker, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, L’Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Oslo Philharmonic.

After a successful operatic debut in Rome, where he conducted the Italian premiere of Warlikowski’s production of From the house of the Dead, he is set to make his German and Austrian operatic debut this season. He will lead Eugene Onegin at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and a new production of Betrothal in a Monastery  at the Theater an der Wien.